A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

In the grammar of LSC there are many examples of the double function of the head noun. In the examples below, the first label in the tag refers to the function that the head noun has in the matrix, and the second one to the function it has in the relative construction.

 

Subject-subject:

                                                             rel

          yesterday boy joan ₃offer₃ self today come.

          ‘Today the boy that yesterday offered (something) to Joan came.’

(© Marta Mosella 2012. Reprinted with permission from Mosella, 2012: 185)

 

Subject-object:

 

                                                                              rel

          self yesterday boy professor toy borrow today play.

          ‘The boy to whom yesterday the professor gave a toy today is playing.’

(© Marta Mosella 2012. Reprinted with permission from Mosella, 2012: 185)

 

Object-subject:

                                                                    rel

          now girl ix₃ zone city live ix_loc self yesterday onions ₃offer₁.

          ‘Yesterday we offered onions to the girl that now lives in the city.’ 

(© Marta Mosella 2012. Reprinted with permission from Mosella, 2012: 186)

 

Object-object:

    

                                                                                                                                    rel

          yesterday eat self year past grandmother plant potato cl(y): ‘in a row’.

          ‘Yesterday we ate the potates that my grandmother planted last year.’        

(© Marta Mosella 2012. Reprinted with permission from Mosella, 2012: 186)